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by olau 7y ago
I think you are underestimating the ability of humans. I remember back in the day where I was following a small amateur indie game scene (1998-2002), a guy released a game he'd written entirely in assembler, just for fun. He could have
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by olau 7y ago
Do you have a source for that information? Old coal plants will presumably be able to operate on the marginal cost of the coal plus maintenance, where as new plants have a big initial capital spending they need to fund. Now, it is clear tha
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by olau 7y ago
No, that's not the real reason. In the places where they have shut down schools, they can't really do it either. But when government says "do X" and has good reasons, the institutions comply. I'm in the board of a p
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by olau 7y ago
Grab a college-level biology intro book. If you're the kind of person who enjoyed physics, you'll probably like it. And it will teach you why there are some many unknowns. Life is complicated, and studying the essence of it is dif
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by olau 7y ago
Was the opposite for me. Having a warm newborn nap on my (unclothed) chest was really a special thing. Yes, they're fickle and a lot of hard work. Even if you do things right, there's going to be a decent amount of screams you jus
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by olau 7y ago
Have you designed it to support subscription payments, e.g. I sign up for a cloud solution and need to pay a bill monthly from now on?
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by olau 7y ago
You can calculate how much power is needed based on past data. That part is complicated, but not really unreliable, although of course the demand may look different in 20 years. And yes, we're going to need extra longer-term storage, b
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by olau 7y ago
They didn't. The nuclear industry failed to innovate themselves out of increasing costs. It is regulatory bodies that set the requirements, not Greenpeace, and those requirements are based on risk calculations. It could be that the ind
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by olau 7y ago
Smart people I know tend to make their own decisions, including whether to participate in specific games or not.
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by olau 7y ago
While subsidies are one cause, another cause is demand response problems: Imagine you have a greenhouse factory producing strawberries. The strawberries come out of the factory on a conveyor belt. Now, you can't just turn off this fact
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by olau 7y ago
I have never heard anyone claim that eval is a good thing. I use dynamic duck typing and runtime reflection in some places in the Python I write. For instance, I might attach an extra attribute to an object and use that later on - e.g. a re
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by olau 7y ago
There's a difference between being passionate about your own work, and being passionate about being better than everyone else. I fact, I don't think the two have anything in common?
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by olau 7y ago
Compared to the salary of skilled workers, it isn't really that much.
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by olau 7y ago
... yet.
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by olau 7y ago
Actually, this is orthogonal to governments. There's widespread bribery in the private sector too, where decisions makers are gifted to persuade them. To use your phrasing, a capitalistic view of this is that corruption is just anythin
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by olau 7y ago
Modern electronics is generally a bad environment for batteries, so they tend to wear out much faster than the rest of the hardware. With a good design, wear parts are easy to repair, or as least as easy as possible.
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by olau 7y ago
Thanks, sounds great. I like Alfred Brendel's rendering too.
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by olau 7y ago
Start a biochar plant burning biomass for energy but leaving the charcoal as a long-lasting soil improvement and carbon storage product. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biochar Sell the biochar to homeowners: http:&#x2F
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by olau 7y ago
Honestly, I found the image of a boy in pain, shot with something that teared up his calf pretty horrific.
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Using Incremental Parsing in Emacs(lists.gnu.org)
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by olau 7y ago
Could you cite sources for these claims? The numbers I've seen are opposite to what you claim, and seemed to indicate that a lot of the "trafficking" is actually people traveling to another country for a while to earn (relati
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by olau 7y ago
Most of this is incorrect, starting with your first claim. Here's a chart that shows the yearly CO2 emissions from electricity generation in Denmark https://energinet.dk/Om-nyheder/Nyheder/2017/05/19
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by olau 7y ago
This is the reason I've stopped buying red peppers in the summer when the local super market starts importing them from Netherlands. In the winter, they import them from Spain. The quality difference is staggering. My own country is al
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by olau 7y ago
Riget - in 4 pieces. Serious comedy horror mystery by Lars von Trier. Lots of atmosphere, great weird characters, lots of both straight-forward and subtle satirical humour.
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by olau 7y ago
If you were to start a new language today, wouldn't it make more sense to start with an existing common language, like English, and make simplifications to it until you reach something like Esperanto? The only downside I can think of i
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by olau 7y ago
Pink used to be a boy's color. I don't think your child is interested in jewellery and fancy hats for the same reason as a grown up. My children of both genders enjoy that stuff too, to the point where my none of my wife's je
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by olau 7y ago
Could we use sshd in the future?
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by olau 7y ago
It's not. It's a tech problem. More specifically, getting the tech cheap enough.
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by olau 7y ago
Indeed. After reading the blog entry, I feel like buying a Librem 5 even though I don't want a large phone (am on an old small dumb phone that lasts 3 weeks on a charge). We've seen so many NIH (on the software side) phones over t
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by olau 7y ago
If you like tinkering, you can certainly do so, but there's a maintenance cost to customizations, and if you're not willing to shoulder them, then you should go with something closer to the stock install where the distribution wil

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